A slow day towards the Western Desert
by We left Aswan at about 8am looking forward to tackling the last part of the journey to Alexandria through the Western Desert in Egypt. Not …
Author: Tania Steyn
Housekeeping makes our day
We spent another day in Aswan waiting for the bikes to arrive, but still no luck. We are hoping that they will arrive tonight or …
Egyptian pizza and another visit to the souq
Last night before we went to bed we heard a huge commotion in the street – music, drums, cars hooting and lots of people – …
Welcome to Egypt!
Despite the cold wind blowing on the deck last night we had a great night sleeping outside. The starlit sky was amazing as the boat …
Meeting a donkey called Chevrolet
We had a slow morning as everything in Sudan normally only starts happening around 10 am. We ended up at another little road side café …
Temporarily detained in Abri
We woke up only to find that we did end up in the front yard of a little house last night :o) It was a …
Beautiful desert road to Karima
We had a very interesting non-South African typical Sudanese breakfast this morning – a fried fish with head, eye and all! We sat at a …
Visiting Sudan’s nr 1 tourist attraction
We set off North towards Shendi from Khartoum at lunch time feeling well-rested, happy from all the good food and wow(!) my clothes were smelling …
Travel permits and alien registration in Khartoum
We have been spoilt rotten here in Khartoum the past few days and have really enjoyed the rest. On Sunday Chris borrowed us his driver, …
Wadi Medani – Sudan’s honeymoon destination
It’s really been a pleasure travelling through Sudan these past two days. I was a bit worried about the Metema/Gallabat border crossing yesterday, but it …
